Doctor Mirabilis;: A novel Tapa dura - 1971

Dodd, Mead, 1971. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1971. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/VG-; pp 335; beige spine with red/black text; dust jacket shows mild shelf wear to exterior; minor edge wear; mylar wrap; cloth has slight rubbing to edges; otherwise clean; strong boards; text block exterior edges mildly toned; interior clean; tight binding. 1336774. FP New Rockville Stock.

book is "Fine." blue top stain. Unclipped wrapper has a mildly darkened spine and some former price tag fragments below the printed price on the inner flap. Lovely "illuminated" parchment/vellum jacket. A fresh, attractive & well-preserved copy.
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In overall good condition, no pages missing. Shipping can take between 2-6weeks for international deliveries. Hardback copies may or may not have dust jackets, please get in contact for more information.

Dodd Mead, 1971 First printing of the First Edition in Very Good Plus condition with a Near Fine unclipped Dust Jacket protected by a Mylar Brodart. Previous owner elegantly signed "EX LIB Frank Kelly Freas".. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. Hardcover.

Dodd, Mead, 1971-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Minimal library distinctions, pocket removed, appears as lightly read, unblemished copy in DJ displaying minor surface/edge wear, as shown.
With Preface to the American Edition, Table of Contents, Dramatis Personae, Notes. "This novel is volume I of a trilogy with the overall title 'After Such Knowledge'. A historical novel based on the life of Friar Roger Bacon, one of the great scholars of the Middle Ages. remarkable life of Friar Roger Bacon in the 14th century.
Blish created a trilogy, each volume of which dealt with an aspect of the price of knowledge, & gave it the overall name of After Such Knowledge (from a T.S. Eliot quote). The 1st published, A Case of Conscience (winner of the '59 Hugo Award as well as 2004/1953 Retrospective Hugo for Best Novella), showed a Jesuit priest confronted with an intelligent alien species, apparently unfallen, which he eventually concludes must be a Satanic fabrication. The 2nd, Doctor Mirabilis, is a historical novel about the… Leer más

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 039606325X . SIGNED EDITION. First American Trade Edition ( following a mimeographed, stapled limited edition). This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, with the exception of light sunning to the spine and spine joints. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. "Blish spent 1942–1944 as a medical technician in the United States Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. His writing career progressed until eventually he gave up his job to become a full-time writer. He is credited with coining the term gas giant, in the story "Solar Plexus" as it appeared in the anthology Beyond Human Ken, edited by Judith Merril. (The story was… Leer más